Building In Public (for real this time!)

Hellooooo!
How have you been?

We are back at our OG yaps and gifs and building (crying) in public.

A quick update on the $5,000 challenge, then we’ll jump right into the Q3 mindset and goals.

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With my OG clients (retainers since last year) I was making roughly $400 every month, that’s where I started this challenge.

Since then, I have:

• Closed a newsletter client paying $700 per month.
• Closed another client for writing thought-leadership articles at $150 per article (we might do four per month, number still fuzzy, so I’ll count it as $600 per month).

That puts me at

$1,700 per month.
$3,300 to go.

Pipeline

• Another newsletter client who wants consulting to grow subs from 7k → 100k in 6 months through organic content.

Had the initial chat, shared a strategy doc (just primary thoughts). First time pricing this kind of thing, so not sure what to quote!

Asked it in our community and got pretty solid responses!

You can join our community too :)

• A call with a founder about LinkedIn ghostwriting for him and his co-founder.

• Possible sponsor for Fully Content now that I’ve tweaked the direction a bit.

Back to Q3: Builder Mindset

What I’ve got:

• An idea

• That can be built (if I pour my heart into it)

• With real potential, backed by my primary research

• ~500 beta testers already on board (yep, that’s you)

• A Custom GPT co-founder (still in progress)

• A notebook to dump every thought and question

Progress so far:

basic understanding and gap-spotting in ChatGPT.

Shared the idea with friends, and they loved it.

Feature set: sketched and ready.

Next step:

I’m neither a coder nor super tech-savvy, so it’ll start as a website/dashboard (I can see an app later).

As always, I’ll figure it out by doing the thing.

Other Goals: Growth

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

• Substack

• Newsletter subscribers (all three)

Until now, I’ve posted whatever pops into my head, and it’s worked. But for these three months, I’ll treat myself like a client: strategy, consistency, metrics.

As I say, You are and will be your own biggest case study!

And yes, the $5k/mo target is still staring me down.

What are your Q3 goals? Would love to know!

Built something product-based? I’d love to have a chat with you :)

Is monsoon there yet? It’s been raining cats and dogs here every evening since 17 June, at least according to my Mom :)

I wish you lots of rainbows.

I’ll see you next Friday,

Love,
Nikita